US and Israeli airplanes conducted joint airstrikes late on 5 May on the Yemeni cities of Sanaa and Hodeidah, in response to the Yemeni Armed Forces’ (YAF) attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
“The United States bombed Sanaa and Israel bombed Hodeidah,” Israel’s Channel 12 reported, citing officials who said that the Israeli raids in Yemen are being coordinated with Washington “while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is overseeing the Israeli attack from the Ministry of Defense building.”
Dozens of warplanes reportedly took part in the western aggression against Yemen.
Despite the intensity of the attacks, a security official told Channel 13 News that Monday’s operation is “merely a repetition of the past.”
“We do not expect the airstrikes to stop Houthi missile launches, and the Air Force is also preparing for a possible Houthi response,” the unnamed official is quoted as saying.
Earlier in the day, US and British warplanes carried out seven airstrikes in Al-Hazm District, located in Yemen’s Al-Jawf Governorate, northeast of Sanaa. Additionally, US aircraft carried out three strikes in the Al-Sawad area of Sanhan District within Sanaa Governorate.
Monday’s blitz against the Arab world’s poorest nation occurred one day after the YAF targeted Ben Gurion Airport with a hypersonic ballistic missile and announced the start of an aerial blockade until Israel ends its siege of Gaza.
“The blessed strike proves the development that [Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi] spoke of, confirms the failure of the defense systems in the region and the entity, and confirms the continued failure of the US aggression to stop the Yemeni support for Gaza,” Member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Mohammed Ali al-Houthi declared on Monday.
This is the sixth Israeli air strike against Yemen since July 2024, following over 400 attacks by the YAF on Israel since the start of the genocide in Gaza.
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